Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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(Français) Comprendre les défis économiques du Venezuela
Michel Collon | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
06 Août 2018 – La crise économique que traverse le Venezuela est-elle bien la preuve de la faillite de la révolution bolivarienne? Dans Les 7 péchés d’Hugo Chavez, Michel Collon analysait le défi qui se posait: rééquilibrer une économie basée sur la rente pétrolière et disposant de maigres secteurs agricole et industriel. Contrairement à certaines idées reçues, Chavez ne s’est pas contenté de distribuer l’argent du pétrole aux pauvres à travers des programmes sociaux. L’ancien président avait entrepris de jeter les bases nécessaires au développement d’une véritable économie nationale. Un processus toujours en cours, mais dont le chemin est semé d’embûches.
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The Metaphysics to Our Present Global Anguish
Alastair Crooke | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
20 Aug 2018 – The American millenarian ‘myth’, then and now, was (and is), rooted in the fervent belief in the Manifest Destiny of the United States, ‘the New Jerusalem’, to represent humanity’s best hope for a utopian future. This belief in a special destiny has been reflected in a conviction that the United States must lead – or more properly, has the duty to coerce – mankind toward that future. Pre-Socratic values: For the Ancients, the very notion of ‘man’, in that way, did not exist. There were only men: Greeks, Romans, barbarians, Syrians, and so on. This stands in obvious opposition to universal, cosmopolitan ‘man’.
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Distorting Past and Present: Reuters on Nicaragua’s Armed Uprising
Joe Emersberger | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
23 Aug 2018 – I examined 45 Reuters news articles about the uprising in Nicaragua since April 18, which are widely reprinted throughout English-language Western media as portrayed by corporate journalism. The story conveyed by Reuters is that the Sandinista government is opposed to democracy and human rights in Nicaragua, while the US government supports these things. But a closer look at the picture reveals numerous distortions about Nicaragua’s past and present.
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[Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi Is Most Polished Mouthpiece of Myanmar Military
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
25 Aug 2018 – Free Rohingya Coalition co-founder Maung Zarni, a member of the TRANSCEND Network, says time to reject false messiahs in Myanmar beginning with Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
25 Aug 2018 – Headlining “Terrorists readying chemical attack to frame Damascus & provide pretext for US strikes” RT reported on Sat 25 Aug that “The US and its allies are preparing new airstrikes on Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry said, adding that militants are poised to stage a chemical weapons attack in order to frame Damascus and provide a pretext for the strikes.”
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Burma/Myanmar: Shameful Anniversary Highlights Lack of Accountability for Atrocities against Rohingya
Amnesty International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
23 Aug 2018 – World leaders’ failure to act has allowed the Myanmar security forces’ perpetrators of crimes against humanity to remain at large for a year after their murderous campaign against the Rohingya prompted an exodus of epic proportions. More than 700,000 Rohingya women, men, and children fled from northern Rakhine State to neighbouring Bangladesh after 25 August 2017, when the Myanmar security forces launched a widespread as well as systematic assault on hundreds of Rohingya villages.
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India’s Changing Health Discourse
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
Inclusive growth is now perhaps the strongest buzzword in development discourse. We have all been talking about growth without understanding that development interventions will not be effectual if they don’t benefit all sections of society. The illusion of trickle-down and ripple-effects of growth had kept us on the wrong track for quite long.
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(Português) Forças Armadas da Finlândia oferecem refeições vegetarianas em todos os quartéis
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
22 agosto 2018 – As Forças Armadas da Finlândia estão oferecendo refeições ovolactovegetarianas e vegetarianas em todos os quartéis do país. Atualmente, todas as guarnições da Finlândia atendem às necessidades de vegetarianos e veganos.
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One Love | Song around the World
Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
From the award-winning documentary, Playing for Change: Peace through Music, comes an incredible rendition of the legendary Bob Marley song “One Love” with Keb’ Mo’ and Manu Chao. This tribute to the legend is performed by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it traveled the globe.
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Cox’s Bazar: The World’s Largest Refugee Settlement
Kristine Kolstad | Norwegian Refugee Council – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
24 Aug 2018 – In August of last year, extreme violence erupted in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, forcing hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee their homes. One year has passed, and around 725,000 refugees from Myanmar have sought safety in neighbouring Bangladesh, according to the UNHCR.
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A ‘Regime’ Is a Government at Odds with the US Empire
Gregory Shupak | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
20 Aug 2018 – A country’s political leaders are likely to be called a “regime” when they do not follow US dictates, and are less likely to be categorized as such if they cooperate with the empire. Calling a government a “regime” suggests a lack of legitimacy, with the implication that its ousting would serve humanitarian and democratic ends; it’s no accident that the phrase is “regime change,” not “government change” or “administration change.”
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Trade Wars: Is There an Off-Ramp?
Askiah Adam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
That an economic world war has already started is beyond dispute. Between the sanctions imposed on several countries and prohibitive tariffs inflicted on friends and foes alike most are warning against a catastrophe, not just for those directly involved, but the world generally.
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The Downside
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
When God created the various countries, he used some balance; each country got some advantages and some disadvantages.
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Necessary Illusions – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, the film explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist. The film is light on its feet, favoring a style that encourages viewers to question its own workings, as Chomsky himself encourages his listeners to extricate themselves from the “web of deceit” by undertaking a course of “intellectual self-defense.”
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A Glass of Milk
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
As a poor student, Howard Kelly supported himself by selling magazine subscriptions door-to-door. It did not always go well.
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Uri Avnery, TRANSCEND Member and Israeli Activist for a Palestinian State, Dead at 94
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
20 Aug 2018 – Uri Avnery, a self-confessed former “Jewish terrorist” who went on to become Israel’s best-known peace activist, died in Tel Aviv today, following a stroke. He was 94.
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Jake Lynch on Peace Journalism
Kimberlye Kowalczyk and Antonio C. S. Rosa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
Presentation on Peace Journalism at Point of Peace Summit in Stavanger, Norway
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The Language Is Dangerous – Communicating Is Remedying
Vera Felicidade de Almeida Campos | Human Wrongs Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
Freud, Nietzsche, Barthes, and so many others regarded language as dangerous. The Freudian slip, the transvaluation of values, the semiotics, in short, the meanings that follow, leap and sneeze from the spoken make clear the danger that exists in language as an expression of what one wishes to communicate.
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(Français) Proche conseiller d’Obama, Ben Rhodes reconnait que les Etats-Unis ont armé les jihadistes en Syrie
Tyler Durden | Investig’Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
20 Août 2018 – Quelqu’un a finalement osé demander à des officiels du gouvernement Obama d’assumer leur responsabilité dans l’aide à Daesh et l’armement des jihadistes en Syrie. Au cours d’un large entretien intitulé « Examen des conséquences de la politique étrangère d’Obama », l’analyste Mehdi Hasan pose la question à Ben Rhodes, longtemps conseiller national à la sécurité à la Maison Blanche sous Obama.
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U.S. to Cut US$ 200m Aid to Gaza and West Bank
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
24 Aug 2018 – US President Donald Trump has ordered more than US$200m in economic aid which was to be allocated to Gaza and the West Bank be redirected elsewhere. A State Department official said the decision was made after a review “to ensure these funds are spent in accordance with US national interests”.
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Genocide of the Greek Nation
Paul Craig Roberts | Institute for Political Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
21 Aug 2018 – The political and media cover-up of the genocide of the Greek Nation began yesterday (August 20) with European Union and other political statements announcing that the Greek Crisis is over. What they mean is that Greece is over, dead, and done with. It has been exploited to the limit, and the carcass has been thrown to the dogs.
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Camilo Mejía Analyzes the Soft Coup Attempt in Nicaragua
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
24 Aug 2018 – The first video showed opposition activists torturing a Sandinista supporter under the oversight of a Catholic priest and the remains of a Sandinista burned alive. A second video showed a statement from an American who has lived in Nicaragua for many years. He described how gangs had invaded his town, set up road blocks, intimidated and abused local civilians. He described the joy of the community when the roadblocks were removed and masked “protesters” departed.
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Myanmar: Tatmadaw Leaders Must Be Investigated for Genocide, Crimes against Humanity, War Crimes – UN Report
UH Human Rights Council – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
27 Aug 2018 – “Military necessity would never justify killing indiscriminately, gang raping women, assaulting children, and burning entire villages. The Tatmadaw’s tactics are consistently and grossly disproportionate to actual security threats. They are shocking for the level of denial, normalcy and impunity. The State Counsellor, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, has not used her de facto position as Head of Government, nor her moral authority, to stem or prevent the unfolding events in Rakhine State,” the report states.
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Gaza: Genocidal Prison & Torture Chamber–Israeli Apartheid Worse than Slavery
Latuff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
21st Century Horror Story – Worse than Nazi Germany
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Israel to Build 650 New Settlement Units in West Bank
Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
22 Aug 2018 – Israel announced yesterday plans to build 650 new settler units in the central West Bank, according to Hebrew-language daily Israel Hayom. The new housing units will be built in the Jewish-only Beit El settlement, which is located adjacent to the West Bank city of Ramallah.
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Systematic Humanitarian Blackmail via Aquarius?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
Confronting Europe with a Humanitarian Trojan Horse – Challenge of the “headless hearts” to the “heartless heads”?
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A Distant Flickering Light: The Hibakusha Peace Movement (Part 2)
Robert Kowalczyk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
20 Aug 2018 – An Interview with Kazuyo Yamane, Associate Professor of Peace Studies (retired) Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan – Is the Hibakusha Peace Movement fading? Why or why not?
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The 73rd Anniversary of the Bombing of Nagasaki: Unwelcome Truths for Church and State
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
“What the Japanese Imperial government could not do in 250 years of persecution (i.e., destroy Japanese Christianity) American Christians did in mere seconds.”
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Rohingyas Declare Their Crime as GENOCIDE: Join Them in Their Radical Act
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
16 Aug 2018 – One fundamentally misguided thinking regarding genocides and atrocity crimes is this: only the UN-supported judicial process and lawyers can determine what is and what is not genocide. I for one reject any neo-colonial thinking that looks to powerful politicians and networks to call atrocity crimes by their names.
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It Is Confusing, but I Dream
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
12 Aug 2018 – “It is dark, but I sing because tomorrow will come”, poet Thiago de Mello proclaimed in the somber epoch of the 1964 civil-military dictatorship in Brazil. “It is confusing but I dream”, I say in these, no less somber, times. No one can take our dreams away. Dreams anticipate the future and announce the tomorrow.
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Charlie Chaplin’s much Celebrated ‘The Great Dictator’ Speech
Antonio C. S. Rosa – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
Inspirational speech given by silent comedian Charlie Chaplin in his famous movie, The Great Dictator.
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Beautiful, Peace Loving Elephants and the Challenges They Face
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
As the environment gets polluted and jungles get destroyed due to economic and development reasons, these huge animals are losing their sanctuaries and habitats. Should we not put a stop to this challenge being faced by these noble and beautiful creatures?
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Seeds of Discontent
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
Small farmers are the key to ending poverty and hunger and promoting sustainable development. In India, small and marginal farmers—those who work on less than two hectares (five acres) of land—constitute 80 percent of all farm households, 50 percent of rural households and 36 percent of the total of all households. Sadly, the plight of these farmers is very distressing.
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Rufus Jones
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
Rufus Jones (1863-1948), an American Quaker, who helped found the American Friends Service Committee in 1917, went to England after World War I to try and help with the reconstruction.
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Japanese Emperor’s Remorse and Efforts to Make Amends for His Father’s War
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
20 Aug 2018 – Akihito is carrying a huge and unbearable cross on his shoulders, created by his father, Hirohito. Akihito cannot avoid carrying it. He has been carrying it for decades. I am impressed by his courageous and sincere attitude. It is difficult to overcome one’s fear, caused by possible physical danger, for instance. It is far more difficult to overcome one’s ego and pride to accept the supreme political and moral responsibility for the sufferings of peoples, caused by the war that was declared by his father.
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Google Tracks Your Movements, Like It or Not
Ryan Nakashima | AP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
13 Aug 2018 — An Associated Press investigation found that many Google services on Android devices and iPhones store your location data even if you’ve used a privacy setting that says it will prevent Google from doing so. Computer-science researchers at Princeton confirmed these findings at the AP’s request.
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Israel Again Tests Chemical Weapons on Gaza Protesters
Ariyana Love | Occupy Palestine TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
15 Aug 2018 – The Israeli Occupation has once again tested strange new and unknown weapons on civilians protesting the illegal siege on Gaza, at the separation barrier fence last Friday. Below is video footage of this new weapon technology. Have you seen anything like this before?
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O! Jericho
Farid Bitar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
Into by Gary Corseri: My decade-long poet/writer-friend, Farid Bitar, sent me A BLADE OF GRASS, a fine anthology of new Palestinian poetry from 10 poets of the diaspora. A splendid enticement to explore the poems and to understand the suffering and yearning of these disenfranchised Semitic people.
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Kofi Annan, Nobel Peace Laureate and Former UN Chief, Dead at 80
Kofi Annan Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
Kofi Annan, the only black African to become UN Secretary-General, has died.
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Carr Fire Catastrophe, Front-Line Footage
Dane Wigington | GeoEngineering Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
10 Aug 2018 – The global climate engineering assault continues to be ramped up, geoengineering operations are mathematically the greatest and most immediate threat we collectively face. Though there are countless forms of anthropogenic damage to the biosphere and climate system, in regard to the off the scale increases in wildfires, and in regard to the unprecedented fire behavior, geoengineering is the core causal factor.
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(Castellano) El neo-fascismo, ola mundial
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
12 agosto 2018 – El fascismo es una derivación extrema del fundamentalismo que tiene una larga tradición en casi todas las culturas. El Occidente imagina que su cultura es la mejor del mundo, que tiene la mejor religión, la única verdadera, la mejor forma de gobierno, la democracia, la mejor tecnociencia, que ha cambiado la faz del planeta y que le ha conferido la capacidad de destruir a todos los seres humanos y parte de la biosfera con sus armas letales.
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Remembering Rohingya Genocide on 25 August 2018
Free Rohingya Coalition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
Free Rohingya Coalition, a global network of Rohingya and non-Rohingya activists and advocates, are planning to commemorate 25 August 2018 as the “Rohingya Genocide Remembrance Day”. On this day, Myanmar Tatmadaw or the Armed Forces launched the largest scale mass killing, rape and arson to date.
→ read full articleLife at the Top
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
While the author has at times felt being “on top of the world”, he cannot claim any personal experience of “life at the top”. However, being a keen witness and a dogged student, the common idea of “top” fascinates him. After all, a crazed race to “the top” inevitably leads to injustice, crime and war. But anyone obsessed with “reaching the top” can provide only a self-serving report of his or her life. Therefore an objective if light-hearted study is attempted here.
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Releasing My North Korean Documentary Film to My Readers
Andre Vltchek — TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
The Faces of North Korea
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Global Heatwave Is Symptom of Early Stage Cycle of Civilisational Collapse
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, Ph.D. | INSURGE Intelligence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
1 Aug 2018 – The extreme weather events of the summer of 2018 are not just symptoms of climate breakdown. They are early stage warnings of a protracted process of civilisational collapse as industrial societies face some of the opening symptoms of having already breached the limits of a safe climate. These events are a taste of things to come on a business-as-usual trajectory.
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A Writer’s Last Port of Call: V.S. Naipaul
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
V. S. Naipaul, the Nobel winning author who just died, was, like so many people, an enigma, at least in his writing. He once said that fiction never lies, and while this may or may not be true, it is true that writers whose politics one may find repulsive can also, despite their conscious intentions, write books that glow with an extraordinary prose luminescence that mesmerizes and reveals deep insights.
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10 Tons of Mail That Had Been Blocked by Israel for Up To 8 Years Arrives in Palestinian Territories
VOA News | AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
14 Aug 2018 – Palestinian postal service employees are working overtime, Palestinian officials said today. The parcels, dating from between 2010 and this year, had been prevented by Israel from entering the West Bank via Jordan but were released in a one-time deal, the officials said. The goods range from simple letters to medicine and even wheelchairs for the disabled.
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‘Defend the People, Not the States’, Says Outgoing UN Human Rights Chief
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
15 Aug 2018 – For four years, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has been taking governments across the world to task, publicly naming and shaming States which have fallen short of their human rights obligations.
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Hawaii Aloha (Music Video of the Week)
Various Singers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
Local artists including Cyril Pahinui, Imua Garza, Paula Fuga, and Kuana Torres Kahele join more than 1,000 Hawaii keiki (children) in this rendition of a timeless Hawaiian anthem filmed on location on Kauai.
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Drifting Away from Peace
Sajjad Hussain | Foreign Policy In Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
According to a new study, peaceful countries are getting more peaceful while the violent are getting more violent.
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Drugged Waters – How Modern Medicine Is Turning into an Environmental Curse
UN Environment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
The aquatic and human health consequences of pharmaceutical drugs entering the environment through wastewater treatment plants is not yet well understood.
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Gaza, Palestine
Farr – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
No comment necessary, possible…
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Forget about GDP: It’s Time for a Wellbeing Economy
Kate Pickett | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
“The gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.” – Presidential candidate Sen. Robert Kennedy, 1968
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Mission Accomplished: Why Solidarity Boats to Gaza Succeed Despite Failing to Break the Siege
Ramzy Baroud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
15 Aug 2018 – Between 2008 and 2016, 31 boats have sailed to Gaza from many destinations, all intercepted, their cargo seized and their passengers mistreated. The most tragic of these incidents was in May 2010 when the Israeli navy attacked the “Mavi Marmara” ship killing ten activists and wounding many more. Even then, the stream of solidarity boats continued to arrive, not only unhindered by the fear of Israeli retribution, but also stronger in their resolve.
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Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
How is it possible that TMS is in New Delhi? Have Prof. Johan Galtung and Editor Antonio C S Rosa decided to move from Alicante and Porto, respectively, to Delhi?
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(Português) Quando Tolstói condenou a caça e a exploração de mão de obra animal
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
“O primeiro passo para reduzir essa dependência é não comer animais e não viajar sobre eles, mas sim a pé”.
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UN Chief Proposes Armed Peacekeeping Force to Protect Palestinians
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
18 Aug 2018 – Antonio Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations, proposed Friday [17 Aug] a United Nations-led armed international mission to defend Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza from the Israeli army.
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Kerala Flood Is Thousands of Times the Magnitude of Thai Cave Rescue!
Binu Mathew | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
18 Aug 2018 – The international community that stood as one to save the Thai kids should wake up to the disaster in Kerala. Tens of thousands of people are stranded in remote areas, in the upper floors of the houses, on trees and even on roof tops. Dead bodies are floating around in flood waters. And nobody moves. The support of UN disaster management team should be sought.
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Inside Facebook’s Myanmar Operation: Hatebook
Steve Stecklow | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
15 Aug 2018 – A Reuters Special Report – Why Facebook Is Losing the War on Hate Speech in Myanmar: Reuters found more than 1,000 examples of posts, comments and pornographic images attacking the Rohingya and other Muslims on Facebook. A secretive operation set up by the social media giant to combat the hate speech is failing to end the problem.
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How Has the Declaration of Human Rights Changed the World?
Peace News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
13 Aug 2018 – This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. How has it changed the world as we know it? In 1948 the Declaration was signed to prevent the horrors of WWII from re-occurring. It set up human rights standards for all and is the world’s most translated document, in over 500 languages.
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The ‘Gig Economy’ Is the New Term for Serfdom
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
The corporate capitalist elites, which have seized control of ruling institutions including the government and destroyed labor unions, are re-establishing the inhumane labor conditions that characterized the 19th and early 20th centuries. They want everyone to be temp workers trapped in demeaning, low-paying, part-time, service-sector jobs without job security or benefits.
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Nature: A PositiVIEW
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
Let´s refer to Nature positively;
Let´s avoid speaking of “the fury of Nature”
or describing the force of winds as “killing”!
The Future of NATO: An Interview
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
11 Aug 2018 – An interview with Daniel Falcone on the future of NATO that considers Trump’s brazen challenges and the tepid responses of European political leaders, and what this interplay signifies for the future of world order… Alarm bells should be ringing through the night at maximum volume, but so far the silences outweigh the noise as the world slouches toward catastrophe, chaos, and cruelty.
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If You Want Peace, Don’t Focus on the Violence and the Evil Guy
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
A Personal Pledge Provoked by the Debates about Syria – Since this author is a peace and future researcher, I shall no longer participate in any discussion or debate about a conflict or war in which the main focus is on the direct violence and one or more participants point out that they know who the bad guy is and seek to frame or place me on this or that or the other side.
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The Satanic Nature of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
Unless we enter into deep contemplation of the evil that was released into the world with those bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we are lost in a living hell without escape. And we will pay. Nemesis always demands retribution. We have gradually been accepting rule by those for whom the killing of innocents is child’s play, and we have been masquerading as innocent and good children for whom the truth is too much to bear.
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U.S. Is Complicit in Child Slaughter in Yemen
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
On August 9, a U.S.-supported Saudi airstrike bombed a bus carrying schoolchildren in Sa’ada, a city in northern Yemen. The United States is deeply implicated in the appalling carnage in Yemen. It is our responsibility as citizens to do what we can to demand an end to this complicity.
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(Italiano) Le tre verità di Hiroshima
Ernesto Balducci – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
Testo che Enrico Peyretti ha letto in sintesi nella manifestazione in Piazza Carignano, Torino, la sera del 5 agosto 2018, nell’anniversario del crimine di Hiroshima. Scriveva Ernesto Balducci (in “La pace, realismo di un’utopia”):
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(Português) A história da crueldade contra os animais em Hollywood
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
A crítica de cinema e escritora britânica Anne Billson publicou hoje [24 maio 2018] no jornal britânico The Guardian um artigo intitulado “Chicken decapitation and battered cats: Hollywood’s history of animal cruelty”, em que ela convida o leitor a refletir sobre a história da crueldade contra os animais no cinema, e especialmente em Hollywood.
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Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
Myth # 1: “The FDA (US Food and Drug Administration) tests all new psychiatric drugs” False. Actually, the FDA only reviews studies that were designed, administered, secretly performed and paid for by profit-driven, multinational pharmaceutical companies.
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Impact of Sanctions and Boycotts on Children
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
13 Aug 2018 – On the one hand, economic and trade sanctions is one of the few instruments short of war to enforce world law and to modify in a positive direction the behavior of a State. On the other hand, sanctions also can be a blunt weapon hitting the weak, sick and hungry who usually have had no or little influence on the policy being sanctioned.
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Israel Destroys Cultural Center in Besieged Gaza Strip
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
Israeli warplanes targeted and destroyed the Said al-Mishal Cultural Center in the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City Thursday [9 Aug], in a round of airstrikes that according to occupation forces hit 150 targets throughout the besieged Gaza Strip.
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Village of Widows: The Story of Sahtu Dene and the Atomic Bomb
Lindum Films – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
This documentary tells the story of the Sahtu Dene community on the shore of Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada where villagers transported uranium in 100 lb. bags during the 1940s to 1960, most dying of cancer. The uranium was sold to US Manhattan project for the first atomic bombs. A quarter of a million Japanese were killed instantly and hundreds of thousands injured.
→ read full articleThis Is the Real, Americanized, Nazi-Dominated Ukraine
Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
7 Aug 2018 – Such important reality as is shown in this picture is virtually unpublishable in mainstream US ‘news’media, because US ‘news’media need to deceive their public about the most important international realities — such as that the US imposed upon Ukraine a nazi regime against Russia, and the US now lies to accuse Russia for doing what Russia must do in order to protect itself from the US nazi regime next-door. This is the nonfictional, historical, version of George Orwell’s fictional novel, 1984. It is happening, right now.
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We Can Unilaterally Stop Being Nasty
John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
13 Aug 2018 – In general, nations should not act unilaterally in foreign affairs. They should instead support international law and the United Nations. But there is one thing that we can and should do on our own: We can unilaterally stop being nasty! Has anyone thought of treating North Korea with kindness? It might be a useful experiment to try.
→ read full articleHuman Extinction by 2026? A Last Ditch Strategy to Fight for Human Survival
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
The evidence in relation to destruction of the Earth’s biosphere, leading to ongoing and rapid degradation of all ecosystems and their services, is readily available and overwhelming. The many and varied forms of destruction are having synergistic impact. An insignificant amount of the vast evidence in relation to this destruction is sampled here. It is going to be a tough fight for human survival, particularly this late in the ‘game’.
→ read full articleIndia’s Tryst with Independence
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
15 August is the most cherished date in the Indian calendar. It was on this momentous day, more than seven decades back, that we were born an independent and free country. Mahatma Gandhi’s luminous leadership finally made the British quit India in 1947. It is certainly an occasion for celebration.
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Dr Vandana Shiva’s Message on World Environment Day 2018
Navdanya – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
4 Jun 2018 – “We must make peace with our planet.”
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The Broken Century
James Scotmore – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
I created this video to highlight the corruption of modern civilisation. In this society, there are many far reaching ethical implications that come from our actions.
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Present Perverse Priorities Will Undermine the UN Even Further!
Jan Oberg | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
6 Aug 2018 – The news came a few days ago: “UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned member states that the organization is facing “troubling funding issues as a result of delayed dues payments that will force reductions in non-staff costs.” But who really cares? Any Trump tweet or football result is more important to our media and politicians. The members of the UN still give the world’s military about 340 times more than the UN for its core budget.
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Restructuring Education Based on Spiritual Secularism for Kindness, Tolerance and Nonviolence
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
Education as a discipline is cosmopolitan because there is no Chinese mathematics, Russian physics, American chemistry, and Indian biology; and as self realization is manifestation of perfection already in every man and woman everywhere without any discrimination, and hence education needs to be restructured universally based on spiritual secularism for kindness, tolerance and nonviolence.
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Solygamy — Marrying Oneself
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
One has heard of polygamy–a man marrying more than one wife. In the Indian epic Mahabharata a woman named Dropadi has more than one husband. But I read about solygamy in a report about a woman named Linda marrying herself in Australia in front of her three friends. She had had an unhappy marriage and decided to wed herself by reciting a few marriage vows.
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La Traviata (Music Video of the Week)
Il Volo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
A Tribute to the Three Tenors. Radio City Music Hall, New York – Notte Magica
→ read full articlePhilosopher Martin Buber on Love and What It Means to Live in the Present
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
Love does not cling to the I in such a way as to have the Thou only for its “content,” its object; but love is between I and Thou. The man who does not know this, with his very being know this, does not know love; even though he ascribes to it the feelings he lives through, experiences, enjoys, and expresses… Love is responsibility of an I for a Thou.
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‘Pioneering’ Former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet Officially Appointed New UN Human Rights Chief
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
After a vote on Friday [10 Aug] by the United Nations General Assembly in New York, former two-time President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, hailed a “pioneer” by the UN Secretary-General, has officially been appointed as High Commissioner for Human Rights, effective from 1 September.
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Marxist Economist Samir Amin Dies at 86
teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
12 Aug 2018 – Born in Cairo, Egypt, the prominent thinker died today afternoon in France after serious complications following a brain tumor. Amin was hospitalized on 21 Jul and went back home on Saturday [11 Aug].
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Israel Is Arming Neo-Nazis in Ukraine
Asa Winstanley | The Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
4 Jul 2018 – Israeli arms are being sent to a heavily armed neo-Nazi militia in Ukraine. Azov Battalion online propaganda shows Israeli-licensed Tavor rifles in the fascist group’s hands. Amid an alarming rise in anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism, Israel now appears to be reprising this role in Eastern Europe.
→ read full articleCapital Punishment of Canon Fodder
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
Death Penalty Contradictions in the Declaration of the Pope
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Brutal WWII History in Japan’s Hashima Island: The Most Haunted on Earth
Andre Vltchek | New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
7 Aug 2018 – Do you want to see perhaps the spookiest island on earth, which is located just 30 minutes by speedboat from Nagasaki? The past of Nagasaki has it all: great old Japanese culture, Christians and their prosecution, the Dutch traders and their settlement, a vibrant Chinese minority. Nagasaki was where the military ships were built, where many slave laborers were brought to from the occupied territories, and this is also where the second A-bomb was exploded by the US at the end of WWII.
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‘Guilty on All Counts!’: In Historic Victory, Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Roundup Cancer Lawsuit
Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
“This is a company that has always put profits ahead of public safety, and today, Monsanto has finally been held accountable.”
→ read full articleAn Imaginary Interplanetary Journey
Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
An imaginary journey, also interplanetary?
How could its goal become extraordinary?
The Useful Idiocy of Donald Trump
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
5 Aug 2018 – The problem with Donald Trump is not that he is imbecilic and inept—it is that he has surrendered total power to the oligarchic and military elites. They get what they want. They do what they want. Although the president is a one-man wrecking crew aimed at democratic norms and institutions, although he has turned the United States into a laughingstock around the globe, our national crisis is embodied not in Trump but the corporate state’s now unfettered pillage.
→ read full articleSearch for Meaning…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
An English teacher wrote the words, “a woman without her man is nothing” on the blackboard and told the students to punctuate it correctly.
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Fidel Castro (13 Aug 1926 – 25 Nov 2016)
Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, political leader of Cuba (1959–2008), transformed his country into the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere. Castro became a symbol of communist revolution in Latin America.
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Meet the Mystery Fixer Who Negotiated Syria Out of Seven Years of War
Rania Khalek | Gray Zone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2018
How a nearly unknown businessman named Khaled al Ahmad became Damascus’ secret liaison to the West and quietly dealt Syria’s grinding war to a close.
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A Distant Flickering Light: The Hibakusha Peace Movement (Part 1)
Robert Kowalczyk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2018
[The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug 6 and 9, 1945, respectively.] An Interview with Mrs. Koko Kondo, The Tanimoto Peace Foundation – Do you think the Hibakusha are still important? “They are still very important. Those individuals of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the only humans who have ever experienced and survived a nuclear bombing. That is a fact. They are the ones who know. Only they.”
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 7 Things You Should Know
ICAN-Int’l Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2018
This week (6-9 Aug 2018) marks 73 years since two atomic bombs were dropped over the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed and maimed, and the effects are still being felt today. But while the mushroom clouds became iconic symbols of mass destruction there are many things you may not know – or may have forgotten – that are really important if we’re going to make sure this never happens again.
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Can Afghans Convince Us That the Method of War Isn’t Effective?
Dr Hakim Young – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2018
2 Aug 2018 – Can Afghans convince us that the method of war doesn’t work? Consider their thirst to end the war
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10th BRICS Summit 25-27 Jul 2018: Johannesburg Declaration
BRICS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2018
BRICS in Africa: Collaboration for Inclusive Growth and Shared Prosperity in the 4th Industrial Revolution – We are meeting on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Nelson Mandela and we recognise his values, principles and dedication to the service of humanity and acknowledge his contribution to the struggle for democracy internationally and the promotion of the culture of peace throughout the world.
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‘The Arab International Forum for Justice for Palestine’ – Beirut 29 Jul 2018
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2018
1 Aug 2018 – The time is ripe for civil society to represent the Palestinian people in their struggle against the Israeli apartheid regime. This struggle is just and the means being pursued are legitimate. Resistance and solidarity are the vital instruments by which to challenge apartheid, and its geopolitical support structure. This was the path that led to the collapse of South African apartheid, and a similar path is now available for the Palestinian struggle.
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100 Living Peace and Justice Leaders and Models (List #4)
Anthony J. Marsella and Kathleen Malley-Morrison – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2018
3 Aug 2018 – As in prior published Lists, individuals cited on List #4 represent a variety of demographic markers, including gender, ethnicity, race, age, nation, religion, and life-style persuasion and preference. By accessing the URL accompanying the person’s name, you can read of their peace and justice activism and advocacy. Our choice of the number,100, is arbitrary, for there are thousands of individuals who deserve citation.
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